Odoo 12 Release Notes

Usability

Cohort View

Dashboard

Dynamic dashboards with UX inspired by Google Analytics. Dashboards can include any graph, cohort, or KPI.

Configuration Bar

New configuration bar in Sales, eCommerce, Invoicing & Accounting to help users configure the system.

Activities

Support for recurring activities, email templates, and a new view to check all activities at a glance.

Import

Lots of usability and speed improvements including a new interface to import files and import templates. The system learns data mapping to auto-detect columns, and detects data formatting (e.g. dates, floats).

Email Digest

Get KPIs sent by email periodically according to your preferences: new leads, opportunities won, revenues, cash, tickets closed, open tasks, etc.

Email Template

Harmonize UI and improve the content of default email templates.

Full Keyboard Support

Press Alt to highlight shortcuts and navigate with the keyboard in forms, list and kanban views.

Integration

Ready Out of the Box

Hardware

Devices can be connected to the IoT Box using USB, HDMI, Bluetooth or Wifi.

Inventory

Dashboard View and KPIs

The new dashboard view gives an overview of your inventory management. Gives average cycle times and delays and includes information about value coming in and out of stock.

Push and Pull Rules

Push and pull rules are merged into a single concept, easier to configure.

Track POs

If the PO has been triggered by a reordering rule, show that reordering rule as source document on the PO (even in cases of multi-step receipts).

Product Cost

Clearer descriptions of journal items, add more information on journal items created through a change of the cost of the product.

PDF Reports

Improvement on the batch picking PDF to regroup products to pick per locations. Improvements to the delivery slip, traceability, picking operations, and the production order PDF reports to fit business.

Visual Representation of Routes

Representation of the routes that apply to the product has been added, to ease configuration and debugging of push and pull rules.

Carriers Connector

Full integration with BPost and Easypost to support 90 extra carriers.

Unit of Weight

Define if you work with kilograms or pounds. Useful when working with carrier integrations.

Transfer Date

Display the date at which the transfer was processed on done transfers. The default scheduled date on pickings is set to today’s date.

Replenish

A new button appears on stockable products in order to easily replenish your stock.

Putaway Strategy by Product

Putaway strategies can now be applied per product and not only per product category.

Exceptions

When there are exceptions to manage, a next activity is logged on the affected document.

Valuation

Accounting entries are posted automatically when an exchange rate has changed between the invoice and the receipt/delivery dates.

Purchases

Request for Quotation

When you create an RfQ for a vendor for which no prices matches, the default price is set to 0.

Traceability

If the PO has been triggered by a reordering rule, show that reordering rule as a source document on the PO.

Blanket Orders

BOs are taken into account when an RfQ is created. Other usability improvements on blanket orders include stages, vendor field required, adapted for multicurrency, and more...

Service

Generate purchase orders automatically for product of type service (MTO). Edit received quantity of a service on a PO.

Manufacturing

Unbuild orders

Push rules are now also applied after unbuild orders.

BoM structure

Add information about the BoM reference and version and make it clickable. Also, add the attachments of the product on that report.

Manufacturing in 2 or 3 Steps

Pick the components before a MO and store the finished product after a MO with a one-click configuration.

Robustness

Prevent users from suppressing productivity losses that are needed on work orders.

Access Right

Stock users do not have access rights to create invoices. The button “Create Invoice” is invisible from the repair order for those users.

Variants

Enlarge the feature to define which components to use for a finished product-specific-variant on the BoM.

Produce on MO

Define the exact quantities of components you consume to produce a finished product on a MO. Gives more flexibility for component consumption.

Product Cost

Compute the cost of products based on their BoM in mass directly from the product list view.

Barcode on Work Order

Work orders can be processed by using a barcode scanner.

Discuss

OdooBot

Discuss onboarding is done through OdooBot. It will welcome you on your first connection to present all the Discuss features.

Moderation

Like Mailman, it is now possible to moderate incoming messages for a channel. You can accept or reject messages and you can always allow or ban a channel member.

Notifications

Improvement and ease of notification in desktop and mobile. Get notified of failure messages.

Chat

Discuss a specific document in a chat window, allowing you to stay on the current page. You now can see when the other person is typing. Added and improved emoji.

Channels

Get access on settings thanks to the gear icon near the channel name.

Activities

Notifications

Attract a user’s attention by sending a different color background on an activity type.

Schedule

An automatic schedule mechanism has been added to plan a flow of activities for specific documents. Added "Done & Schedule" and "Done" features.

Meetings

Display today’s meetings in the next activity dropdown to quickly check what’s planned for your day.

Reminders

Allow people to add personal reminders in Odoo using the Notes application and the Next Activities modules (e.g.: lunch with colleagues, call mom, etc).

Mail Template

Select a mail template on an activity type to remind several users to do an activity

Timetable

Get things done easily with the new Activity view! Navigate quickly through calls, emails, meetings and reminders you planned for yourself. Available on all objects for maximum integration

eSign

SMS Validation

Double authentication has been added to strengthen the security of digital signatures

Onboarding

Improve the flow of the Sign Application to ease user onboarding and the use of the application on a day-to-day basis.

Custom Color Picker

Building Blocks

New building blocks have been added, including new customization options and business-oriented content. Quickly customize block height by adding padding. You can also add or remove columns easily.

SEO Wizard

A new SEO wizard has been added with a keyword tab to identify content (such as titles, descriptions, texts, H1, H2) to improve in your pages. The ability to set images for social share has also been added.

Media Manager

Choosing background pictures is quicker and easier thanks to the new media manager.

Menu

A new option on website topbar menu to embed it in the first block of the page for a better visual harmony. Keep the website menu visible when scrolling down.

Unsplash

Use the Unsplash search in the media manager to find beautiful, free images to create your websites.

Webmaster

The website backend has been redesigned for easier navigation and configuration. The app store has also been revamped to install new features more easily.